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January 23rd, 2019Hypertension, or high blood pressure, is a widespread clinical problem affecting nearly half of all adults. Despite the serious consequences that can result from hypertension, which puts patients at increased risk for heart attacks, strokes and...

January 16th, 2019A study of around 8,000 middle-aged and older adults found that swapping a half-hour of sitting around with physical activity of any intensity or duration cut the risk of early death by as much as 35%. The findings highlight the importance of...

January 9th, 2019Exercise could be just as effective in lowering high blood pressure as prescribed medication, according to a review of 400 trials.
Researchers pooled data from nearly 400 trials and found that for people with high blood pressure, activity such as...

November 28th, 2018A fifth of girls aged 17-19 and one in 10 boys the same age have self-harmed or tried to kill themselves, The Guardian reports the biggest research into young people’s mental health in the UK for 13 years has found. Experts said the figures were...

November 21st, 2018A Cochrane Review has found that increasing the intake of omega-3 long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (LCPUFA) during pregnancy reduces the risk of premature births.
Premature birth is the leading cause of death for children under 5 years old...

November 14th, 2018The largest meta-analysis to date found that none of 11 non-surgical treatment options for "tennis elbow" performed better than placebo in addressing patients' pain and all increased patients' odds of adverse events.
The painful condition known...

November 7th, 2018A study has found that black women in South Africa are almost six times more likely to die of cervical cancer than white women and that the five-year survival rates of black and coloured women (40-50%) were significantly worse than those of white...

October 31st, 2018A study from the University of Eastern Finland and Massachusetts Institute of Technology hows that articular cartilage degenerates specifically around injury areas when the fluid flow velocity becomes excessive.
Knee joint injuries are typically...

October 24th, 2018A study in The Lancet reports the results of a randomised trial done in 25 UK primary care centres, which compared a single steroid injection with 6 weeks' night splinting in patients with mild or moderate carpal tunnel syndrome.
Carpal tunnel...

October 17th, 2018Medical practitioners, healthcare workers and emergency departments in Southern Africa now have access to a new special advisory group of snakebite authorities.
The National Snakebite Advisory Group (NSAG) offers a free national advisory support...

October 10th, 2018Australia will become the first country to effectively eliminate cervical cancer if vaccination and screening rates are maintained, BBC News reports researchers say. The disease could be eradicated as a public health issue nationally within 20...

October 3rd, 2018Adolescents require 8-10 hours of sleep at night for optimal health, according to sleep experts, yet more than 70% of high school students get less than that. Previous studies have demonstrated that insufficient sleep in youth can result in learning...

September 26th, 2018People with deep-vein thrombosis (DVT) can substantially cut their risk of potentially debilitating complications by starting adequate compression therapy in the first twenty-four hours of DVT therapy (known as the acute phase of treatment),...

September 19th, 2018Fewer and fewer women die from breast cancer in recent years but, surprisingly, the decline is just as large in the age groups that are not screened. The decline is therefore due to better treatment and not screening for breast cancer.
This is...

September 12th, 2018Statins are not associated with a reduction in cardiovascular disease (CVD) or death in healthy people aged over 75, finds a study. However, in those with type 2 diabetes, statins were related to a reduction in cardiovascular disease and death from...

September 5th, 2018The foods that make up a heart healthy diet for people worldwide may differ from what was previously thought, according to late breaking results from the observational Prospective Urban Rural Epidemiological (PURE) study presented at ESC Congress...

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